How Artificial Intelligence Became the Darling of an Industry

The rise of behavioral analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or whatever the latest nomenclature is currently being promoted by vendors, has taken the security community by storm and showing no signs of stopping. It's almost impossible not to see these phrases mentioned on new preventative solutions going to market and rightfully so. With an industry accustomed to relying on static signatures, known bad hashes and singular alerting, this technology is a welcome relief for defenders and we've seen the market capitalize on our desire for it. The progression of the security industry towards technologies that welcome behavior analysis over static alerting is a step forward in the evolution of detection and defense. These solutions aren't perfect by any means, but the progressive mindset in closing the detection gap is a step forward.